Web server in a flash drive?!?!

sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
I found this on eBay, and it looks really neat!! Can you guys tell me if it would be good? It looks like it would be perfect for me to host my website on and get out of stupid Geocities!! Please check it out and tell me what you think.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5772678574

Theres also 256mb models available, but the link is for the 128.

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited May 2005
    pft I put apache and striped debian 3.1 sarge on my thumb drive and it cost me alot less then that thing on ebay.Only the price of a thumb drive.

    All I do is pop it in a computer tell the computer to boot from the thumb drive and I have a web server up.

    Edit:
    Only one issue its only got 256mb of storeage 104mb is getting used by debain and apache. So I cant fit much on my site


    Well And since im on adsl my ip changes every time I connect, But thanks to www.dyndns.org I don't have to worrie about that :D
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited May 2005
    ok- i was wondering about that, and on the description it says:
    For portable Internet operation, a Dynamic DNS service such as www.no-ip.com can be used to allow WebServUSB to have a portable domain name reachable at whatever PC its plugged into.

    so how on earth would it know when the IP has changed? how does DDNS work?

    cuz i have dsl, and my IP changes when i restart the computer or router (obviously). so it wouldnt always be the same. How could the IP of the server stay the same, and the web redirect/domain i have still go to the same place?
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited May 2005
    A small app that sends your current ip to the dns server which updates the link.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited May 2005
    ahh ok.. now that makes sense. does no-ip.com have it? cuz i already have an account there.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    no-ip is very good, I believe Shorty even uses it for certain testing purposes if I recall. I've used in the past many times as well, it's got it's own little program you install that runs in the background that checks your IP and sends it to them. You wind up with a site on the internet like mine was ranger-loki.no-ip.com or something. Doesn't work though since I don't need it anymore.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    pilotwings119 wrote:
    does no-ip.com have it?

    Yes they do!:)
    http://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php?page=win
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited May 2005
    aha! thank you for the link!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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